This has got to be the worse season yet for our bunch. You got to any blind and you don't see "A duck" of any sorts. Its like hunting in a barren marshy wasteland void of all living creatures. It sucks right now! I'm thinking about changing the name of our hunt club to "Hemroid Hunt Club, Where EVERY hunt is a pain in the *ss!"

Islander Gunner wrote:This has got to be the worse season yet for our bunch. You got to any blind and you don't see "A duck" of any sorts. Its like hunting in a barren marshy wasteland void of all living creatures. It sucks right now! I'm thinking about changing the name of our hunt club to "Hemroid Hunt Club, Where EVERY hunt is a pain in the *ss!"

I.G.-I concur my friend..This has been THE WORST I can remember in a long time. Makes me appreciate the seasons that I thot "bad" .

Swampbilly1980- I got a feeva',..and the only cure is more Mergansers and face paint.

Thanksgiving week, there were some birds around. Not much now. I've been chasing black ducks recently, so if you get one, your day is done! I guess its sad that I have to lower expectations to justify "success." This weather now doesn't help. I'm going out to brush the big diver blind tomorrow in hopes that we get some cold weather in January. Good luck everyone

I'm kind of surprised to hear this from so many. It certainly hasn't been a perfect season but I couldn't believe how good it was up until about a week ago. Big ducks nearly every time. Even if it was one, they kept showing up. I thought December last year was a wasted month, and the last ten days or so have been that way but I'm optimistic based on the early season turnout.

Last year this time I hadn seen but a handful of the mallards and blacks. Small Divers, Greys and baldpates were pretty common. It's been backwards so far. Either way, praying for colder weather.

Getting plenty of ducks and geese where I hunt. Mallards, blacks, woodrows, and some gadwall. Good size bunches of ducks. Don't know why the migration is screwed up this year. Last year very few ducks. This year plenty. Must be an east west thing.

We have had these "%$^%%*&%*^" seasons in the past and the only thing you can do is grin & bear it and keep going as much as you can stand it. Every blind we have is crummy right now, so I just go to an easy spot (tide & wind) and sit, wait and hope something will fly by. Pretty soon the season will be over, then the really COLD weather will hit and there will be ducks every where, ganging up in rafts to tear the cedars off the blinds!

Just like last year, with a slow nov/dec and a somewhat above-average January, I think we are about to turn the corner here folks. With 25 degrees and snow on the forecast for this coming weekend, plus 2 days off this week, I am being slightly optimistic about the final stretch. Good luck!

Posted in another thread that this has been a hit or miss season so far. We have killed 5-10 birds (mallards and geese) on some outings, and not shot on others. Usually see good number of birds most hunts, but sometimes not in range. Have yet to hunt in Maryland yet this year, but our pit blind lease has limited out on geese every hunt so far and even killed some snow geese. Maybe the birds are just hung up just north of us. My other theory is I keep hearing more and more about private owners building impoundments strictly for duck hunting...any chance these "new" areas are changing the birds' wintering habits? Hard to prove though. Don't give up....things can change in a day.